Pulmonary and Systemic Responses to Harmful Gases and Particulate Matter Inhalation

Dear Colleagues,

Inhalation of harmful gases and particulate matter remains a major contributor to the global burden of respiratory, cardiovascular, and systemic diseases. While traditional air pollutants, including particulate matter (PM), ozone, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, and combustion-derived aerosols continue to present substantial public health challenges, increasing attention is being directed toward emerging inhalation hazards such as airborne micro- and nanoplastics, engineered nanomaterials, wildfire smoke, indoor air pollutants, biomass smoke, occupational exposures, and aerosols generated from novel and emerging tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, and heated tobacco products. Understanding the biological mechanisms, exposure pathways, and long-term health consequences of these diverse airborne contaminants is essential for improving risk assessment and informing regulatory decision-making.

This Special Issue welcomes high-quality original research articles, review articles, systematic reviews, scoping reviews, meta-analyses, protocol papers, methods papers, short communications, and perspectives that advance our understanding of pulmonary and systemic responses to inhaled toxicants. We encourage studies employing innovative approaches such as human-relevant Novel Alternative Methods (NAMs). By bringing together multidisciplinary contributions spanning mechanistic toxicology, exposure assessment, environmental health, and regulatory science, this Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive platform for emerging discoveries, critical evidence syntheses, and methodological advances that improve our understanding of inhalation toxicology and its implications for human health.

Dr. Koustav Ganguly
Dr. Swapna Upadhyay
Guest Editors

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